As efforts to cut emissions of carbon dioxide founder, negotiators at the latest round of United Nations climate change talks are looking to other greenhouse gases.
Debt pressures in Europe enhance the importance of low-profile meetings held Nov. 22-23 in London on interactions between physical and financial markets in energy.
These are the words most often recalled when dozens of oil and gas executives were asked what they remembered about BP PLC's communications during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The federal response to crude oil spilling from BP PLC's Macondo well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico involved more experts from the oil and gas industry and from government departments and agencies once it became apparent the US Minerals Management Service's scientific knowledge was limited, according to a new staff working paper prepared for US President Barack Obama's independent oil spill commission.
Many Rocky Mountain producers already were aware of the sage grouse's potential impact on their operations when the US Department of the Interior released a breeding density map on Nov. 23 showing where the ground-dwelling wild bird is most prolific.
Proposals to raise the federal oil spill tax by $31 billion would increase the US oil and gas industry's possible targeted amount to $117.48 billion in the fiscal 2011 budget, American Petroleum Institute officials warned.
Thailand's PTTEP Australasia Ltd., which implemented an action plan to improve drilling safety following the Montara well oil spill, on Nov. 24 acknowledged its earlier operating deficiencies that the Montara Commission of Inquiry identified in a final report.
Operators faced with costly delays in obtaining fracturing crews are considering their options, and some are assembling their own company-owned fracture stimulation fleets and also entering long-term service contracts.
Venezuela's state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA and Italy's Eni SPA have agreed to invest $17 billion in two separate joint venture projects aimed at producing and refining from the Latin American nation's Orinoco belt.
Fears of global LNG oversupply in late 2008 have proven overblown by late 2010, said Betsy Spomer, BG Group vice-president regional business development, Americas and global LNG. She spoke to the opening session of CWC's World LNG Summit Nov. 30 in Barcelona.
The US government is losing income from oil and gas leases because the Department of the Interior does not accurately track losses from natural gas venting and flaring, the Government Accountability Office said in a Nov. 29 report.
With the inclusion of some large oil reserves in Africa and a boost in Venezuela, Oil and Gas Journal's annual look at reported worldwide reserves shows an increase to 1.47 trillion bbl from 1.35 trillion bbl in last year's survey.
Crude oil distillation capacity worldwide advanced again in 2010, according to the latest OGJ Refinery Survey, setting a record for the ninth year in a row.
Oil & Gas Journal's semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows a decline in construction activity compared with the previous edition of the update (OGJ, Apr. 5, 2010, p. 24).
Lagniappe is a term commonly used in the Gulf Coast region, especially in Louisiana, to describe a small gift or something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure. Such is the case with the shallow gas play in many of Southeast Louisiana's fields.
Rystad Energy AS, Oslo research and consulting outfit, predicts that Poland will become a global exploration hot spot with as many as 330 exploratory wells to be drilled in the next 5 years.
Closed-loop circulating provides pressure control in many drilling and completion applications for which conventional fluid return systems are inadequate.
A novel treatment enables operators to reuse Class II oil and gas waste streams from Greater Wattenberg Oil and Gas field in the Denver-Julesburg basin.
A high-severity fluid catalytic cracking unit of 100,000 tonnes/year capacity has been in operation at the Guwahati refinery, one of the 10 refineries operated by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd., since its commissioning in 2003.
